[Gllug] Clock running at double speed!

[Chris Bell]

On Sat 20 Jan, John Winters wrote:
> 
> I've just been struggling with an odd problem on an old computer. 
> (Sorry - I keep recycling these things for worthy causes.)
> 
> The computer as a whole seems to work fine, but the clock drifts at an 
> astonishing rate.  It's running Debian Sarge, with a 2.6.18 kernel and 
> if I clock-watch on the desktop the clock seems to run at exactly twice 
> the correct rate.  That is, every second it updates but the time 
> increases by 2 seconds, like this:
> 
> 17:05:02
> 17:05:04
> 17:05:06
> 
> etc.


   I have not heard of that problem before, but I would look in the BIOS. Is
it the type of motherboard with a plug-in DIL BIOS with its own internal
battery? It could have been replaced with the wrong type. I would expect the
type with a separate round Lithium battery to just stop as the battery
fails. NTP should only do incremental changes to give fine corrections.

-- 
Chris Bell

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